Re: Basic question about IOCTL

2008-02-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Brandon Philips wrote: On 19:32 Thu 07 Feb 2008, Mayank Kaushik wrote: I am puzzled about what IOCTLs are and what they are used for. I could not understand much from the the man page for ioctl. I was very puzzled about ioctls when I first started using Unix too. :)

Re: git-pull conflict - how to solve it?

2008-02-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Peter Teoh wrote: ... snip ... Tried before, but got errors as wellanyway...in doing all these stuffmy aim is shortest time possible and if going through all these errors and more errors expected in futurei rather restored back from backup.the latter

Re: Time stamp on kernel crash file

2008-02-08 Thread Eugene Teo
quote sender=Mulyadi Santosa On Feb 6, 2008 11:45 AM, Vijeth Bhat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have two doubts/questions. 1. How to force a kernel panic / crash ? Ehm, by calling panic()? http://lxr.linux.no/linux/kernel/panic.c#L60 You can run: echo c /proc/sysrq-trigger Eugene

A question about the implementation of routing subsystem in Linux kernel

2008-02-08 Thread Zheng Da
Recently, I try to understand the implementation of the routing subsystem. It's so complex, and I'm quite confused by so many different structures. As my understanding about the four structures fib_node, fib_alias, fib_info, and fib_nh: fib_node can be used to identify a subnet or a host.

Permanent HD spindown?

2008-02-08 Thread David Wuertele
I'm writing code for an embedded system that has drive heat problems. I don't have control over the applications on the box, but I'm responsible for making sure that if the drive gets too hot, I spin it down and it stays down. hdparm -y /dev/xxx works great for spinning down the drive, but it

Module.symvers Problems

2008-02-08 Thread Michael Cashwell
Greetings, I'm working on a pair of externally built modules for a 2.6.2x vintage kernel on an embedded system and am having trouble. I've exported symbols from a HAL module for use in the other module but when I insmod the latter I get an error saying that no version for some function

Business to Business E-Mail

2008-02-08 Thread Cantfindit Management
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atomic operation in 32 bit but no in 64!?

2008-02-08 Thread Diego Woitasen
Hi, I was reading the code of include/linux/fs.h and saw a comment before i_size_read() that says: /* * NOTE: in a 32bit arch with a preemptable kernel and an UP * compile the i_size_read/write must be atomic with respect to * the local cpu

Re: atomic operation in 32 bit but no in 64!?

2008-02-08 Thread Rene Herman
On 09-02-08 00:22, Diego Woitasen wrote: I was reading the code of include/linux/fs.h and saw a comment before i_size_read() that says: /* * NOTE: in a 32bit arch with a preemptable kernel and an UP * compile the i_size_read/write must be atomic with

Re: Time stamp on kernel crash file

2008-02-08 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
Hi Eugene quote sender=Mulyadi Santosa Ehm, by calling panic()? http://lxr.linux.no/linux/kernel/panic.c#L60 You can run: echo c /proc/sysrq-trigger Eugene Missed that one, thanks Eugene. Gong Xi Fa Cai! regards, Mulyadi. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with

Re: A question about the implementation of routing subsystem in Linux kernel

2008-02-08 Thread Michael Blizek
Hi! On 19:22 Fri 08 Feb , Zheng Da wrote: Recently, I try to understand the implementation of the routing subsystem. It's so complex, and I'm quite confused by so many different structures. As my understanding about the four structures fib_node, fib_alias, fib_info, and fib_nh: fib_node